On Monday, October 15, 2012 1:05:41 PM UTC-7, windowsrefund wrote: > > > Look, don't start trying to paint me in a negative light here. I'm not the > one who has taken specific actions designed to alienate the free software > community. Let's get back to the topic at hand. Someone obviously made the > decision to make the community jump through yet another hoop in order to > obtain and therefore, use, the free software version over PE. Who made that > decision and how was that justified? More importantly, who is making the > call to not revert the page now that objections have been raised? > > > Adam
Firstly, we're not going to revisit the discussions around the change of Puppet and Facter's license. We stated our reasoning at that time (see this blog post - http://puppetlabs.com/blog/relicensing-puppet-to-apache-2-0/). We accept that some members of the community (a very small number from the feedback we've received) have an issue with the change but it has been largely well received. Secondly, describing Puppet Lab's open source software as a "red-headed step child" is not only hyperbolic but it's also incorrect. We produce far more open source software than we do commercial software. The flurry of releases this year reflect this continued focus on the community and our commitment to open source software. Thirdly, as stated earlier, very few of our customers acquire the open source version of Puppet via the website. They use distribution provided packages or our own repositories. We agree we've removed the previously available bypass but we've also provided numerous other channels (that we've certainly not hidden from the community in any way) where you can get Puppet. Lastly, we freely admit that we're trying to feature Puppet Enterprise because it pays for us to continue to develop Puppet. That's our business model and we've been very clear now and in the past about that model and how commercial and open source software interact at Puppet Labs. As a result of our need to fund Puppet development we're clearly not going to meet the expectations of every member of the community but we've chosen a path we think, and feedback from the community reflects this, delivers to the needs of both the open source community and allows us to maintain a viable business. Kind Regards James Turnbull -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/UU5x--dJQkIJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
